new mdadm (was: Bug#376009: mdadm: AUTOSTART should control the stopping of arrays as well and default to off)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Christian Pernegger <pernegger at gmail.com> [2006.07.07.1616 +0200]:
> jesus:~# dpkg -i mdadm_2.5.2-3_amd64.deb
> (Reading database ... 52023 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace mdadm 2.4.1-6 (using mdadm_2.5.2-3_amd64.deb) ...
> Stopping RAID arrays...done (1 array(s) stopped).
> 
> [That killed an array that I had created and that was currently
> building. All attempts to reassemble fail with mdadm: /dev/sda* has
> wrong uuid. There's no need to stop the array for an update of mdadm
> anyway.]

Mh, okay. I am sorry about that and you are right. I will make sure
that future versions do not stop RAIDs automatically. Unfortunately,
there is nothing I can do for those upgrading from 2.x versions
prior to 2.5.2-4, which is done. See below.

> [See above ... and it was 94% done, too.]

I'll buy you a beer, okay? I am sorry.

> /var/lib/dpkg/info/mdadm.config: line 41: MAIL_TO: unbound variable

Fixed.

http://debian.madduck.net/repo/dists/experimental/main/binary-i386/admin/mdadm_2.5.2-4_i386.deb
http://debian.madduck.net/repo/dists/experimental/main/binary-amd64/admin/mdadm_2.5.2-4_amd64.deb

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